Steven Cohen

Sphincterography : The Tour – Johannesburg

Archive 2013

© Steven Cohen OVERSEAS, Lille, 2013 ©Marianne Greber-ADAGP-VBK Wien ©

© Steven Cohen, Artist Boudoir, Lille, 2013© Marianne Greber-ADAGP-VBK Wien. ©

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Sphincterography : The Tour – Johannesburg
(The Politics of an Arsehole)
Artistic Proposition, Steven Cohen
Interpretation, Steven Cohen
Light Installation and technical Direction, Erik Houllier
Text, Steven Cohen
Texts Translation, Agathe Berman

Production Latitudes Contemporaines (Lille) // Coproduction La maison rouge (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris // Special Thanks to the Stevenson Gallery (Johannesbourg, Cape Town) // Manifestation organisée dans le cadre des Saisons Afrique du Sud-France 2012 & 2013 www.france-southafrica.com // Sphincterography – The Tour is a part of the exhibition My Joburg, presented at  la maison rouge from the 20 of June to the 22 of Septembre 2013.

A South African artist of Lithuanian origin now living in France, Steven Cohen questions displacement in a piece which revisits his past Johannesburg performances. Two artists in residence at MAC/VAL, Mary Sibande stages her “clone” dressed as a housemaid and dreaming of another life in photographs and performances, while Mikhael Subotzky’s art renews the codes of humanist photography.

See also

Théâtre de la Cité internationale
octoberoct 4 – 6

Steven Cohen
Boudoir

RépertoireVisual arts

If, up until now, the performances of the South African artist have consisted of exposing himself onstage or in public spaces, in his latest piece Steven Cohen plays host to audiences from within the confines of an intimate, private space, the boudoir. The latter, a chapel or refuge, becomes a place in which he gathers up his memories of his past - as well as those of the last century, gruesome though they may be.